Men Quotes

"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."

"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

"You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way."

"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

"The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."

"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign."

"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

"Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

"The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

"Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial."

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."

"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."

"It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."

"Nine men in ten are would be suicides."

"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."

"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."

"Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

"Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times."

"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability."

"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."

"The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty."

"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."